Maple Syrup Gore: From Sexploitation to Canuxploitation (Representations of Gender in the Canadian Horror Film)

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2017-05-08

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Mlynarz, Agnieszka

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University of Guelph

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This thesis is an investigation of five Canadian genre films with female leads from the Tax Shelter era: The Pyx, Cannibal Girls, Black Christmas, Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, and Death Weekend. It considers the complex space women occupy in the horror genre and explores if there are stylistic cultural differences in how gender is represented in Canadian horror. In examining variations in Canadian horror from other popular trends in horror cinema the thesis questions how normality is presented and wishes to differentiate Canuxploitation by defining who the threat is.

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canuxploitation, horror, genre, sexploitation, camp, sensationalism, final girl, coward, bully, clown, Black Fawn Films, exploitation, Black Christmas, The Pyx, Cannibal Girls, Death Weekend, Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS

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